This is why I have a hard time getting on board the Lorde train; it seems like so much of what people consider refreshing about her revolves around her talking shit about other female celebrities. I'm glad Lawrence actually gets the spirit of the quote rather than thinking it just means no one is allowed to make jokes…

would you rather he had pretended to be gay?

Oh, get the fuck over yourself, little boy.

Do I have to wait for him to come up in conversation, or am I just supposed to walk up to people and say "Crackermore" apropos of nothing? Because I feel like if I do that, their reaction won't fall into either of those categories.

I am eager to learn "basic goddam decency" at the knee of a guy who defends a man who shot a woman in the face for being on his doorstep.

A) Where have I revealed any of that?

Damn. I never would have written it if I'd known you didn't think it was funny.

What the merciful fuck are you talking about?

People who think of themselves as progressive are really threatened when people aren't enamored of him, I think. "Wait, so some people might not offer unconditional praise just for not being shitty to entire groups of people? Well, then what's the POINT?"

Really? That's all it takes?

doldrums is pretty openly racist, going by his history, so I think he might be saying "any white people who are less racist than me don't know any black people."

What?

Oh no, the guy who spent an entire thread defending the guy who shot Renisha McBride in the face doesn't think I know enough black people.

Um, no. What a weird question.

Because he's a cracker?

I'm a white man, so maybe get your dick and your burning straw man out of my face.

I mean, if it makes you feel any better, I insulted you for having a shitty, entitled argument too.

And then there's the fact that all the plaudits he gets invariably set the scene by tsk-tsking about how uniformly homophobic all rappers/black people in general are, which is both flagrantly inaccurate and erasure of LGBTQ people in both communities (not that that's anything new).

No, they mean "point it out in a way that doesn't offend their delicate wittle str8y fee-fees." Straight people get REALLY upset when you suggest that they're not King of the Humanitarians for changing their Facebook picture.

So after initially not wanting to be presumptuous, he decided he would after all? What a swell fella.